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★ 【LUCIDSKY】 「 Remembrance 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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★ 【소녀인】 「 Himmel & Frieren 」 ✔ republished w/permission ☆ follow btt’s fanart twitch stream!

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May we cherish the times we have with our love ones here on earth and not have this kind of regret.

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"as long as our journey continues, we can always meet again"

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Frieren - Thanks for the Journey Definitely my favorite anime this last season, sad it's over now it got me so emotional!

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While Erza possesses incredible power, that's not the only thing that makes her an amazing wizard. In fact, it would mean very little without her other qualities. This isn't the first time she's displayed her observational abilities, but I think that they really shine in her battle against Midnight when she so swiftly deduces the weaknesses of his magic and manages to defeat him. And her other impressive quality is also in the spotlight in that same fight - she's not fully healed from the trauma that she's endured; it can still take hold of her, especially when prompted by the villains. However, she's managed to find the strength to carry on even with that trauma being a part of her. Like she said, living with an open heart and enjoying the happiness when it finds her, and fighting through the pain when that finds her in turn. I'd say her renewed bond with Jellal is a perfect encapsulation of that. He has caused her a lot of pain but instead of holding on to that and being unable to look at him, she's the one who gave him courage to continue fighting. She looks at him and chooses to see the strength of his inner light, and she helps him see it too after she lost him to despair once.

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I like Lucy so much. She is such an amazing character. Seriously why do the author needs to treat her like that? She is so good and relatable. She do not need those fanservices!

the most important part of being a fairy tail fan is absolutely fucking hating fairy tail

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Imogen even mentions in the end that Jaron would keep secrets. Jaron didn’t say he wouldn’t ever keep any secret from her (that’s not possible; he’s king, for the greater good). I don’t get the author’s liking for Imogen much. Maybe it’s because I heard the author had a friend with Imogen’s personality, so maybe that’s why. The author perhaps knows and understands Imogen’s thoughts, but they weren’t presented properly, and Imogen failed to give a good impression to me at first in Book 1. So maybe that’s why I couldn’t like her. Amarinda gave a better first impression to me in Book 1 when she was introduced than Imogen.I didn’t like the plot twist of Imogen being royalty in the last book, and why didn’t Imogen seem to have any struggle? She grew up as a commoner all her life and didn’t have anyone who had lived in the castle. Her mother is royalty, but she never lived in the castle. Imogen was never taught how to be a queen. She didn’t know the ways of the castle. Jaron at least grew up in the castle for close to eleven years. Why, even before the plot twist of her being royalty, did no one have any problems with her being betrothed to the king? I didn’t mind Tobias and Amarinda marrying at nearly 17, but why did Jaron have to marry so young? I get that this is a medieval world, and people used to marry early, but mostly it was girls who married as teenagers. Boys marrying as teenagers was rare, and mostly that happened because of politics. At times, they didn’t last long. Jaron is known to break conventional rules throughout the books, so he didn’t have to marry early. I think I’ve seen instances of teenage kings more in history than teenage male royals marrying early; there were more instances of women younger than the boys marrying early. I know Jaron is mature for his age, being king and all, but he also acts his age so many times in the books, and people already expect so much from him. There’s no need to expect him to be a proper husband so early on. This is fantasy; it didn’t have to stick to what used to happen in the real world at that time. Also, I noticed there was a lack of a main female character fighting from the front or being daring and bold. Every fantasy story set in a medieval world has a character like that. Maybe if there was a character like that, then Jaron would have ended up with her, so that’s why there was no such character.She should have died in Book 3 for real because her death seemed justified, and too much time and too many pages were spent on her death. It would have stuck to the fact that wars always end with casualties. Not one important character died in the war, and I think Imogen should have died to give it a bittersweet ending. Wars don’t usually have happy endings. But the author decided not to stick to that, though she stuck to the fact that people used to marry early then. I never liked Imogen being alive again in Book 3, considering I never liked her as a character much.

Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

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If I didn’t like her, I couldn’t go with the romance even in the later books. In Books 4 and 5, I found her even more intolerable. Why is Jaron saying Imogen gets him or sees through him? In Book 1, Imogen never realized Sage’s true identity or reasons, as Jaron himself said in his monologues. Also, it was after talking with Amarinda in Book 2 that Imogen realized Jaron was going to the pirates. I disliked her when she was angry with Jaron when he said something like he couldn’t let people get close to him because it doesn’t end well. My boy is traumatized and speaking from his experiences, I know. She didn’t have to get angry, saying she couldn’t let him either, and leave. Whenever they had arguments, I didn’t feel like I wanted to root for them to be together like I usually do for other romances I get interested in. In Book 5, really, Imogen and problems with Jaron keeping secrets? That secret Jaron kept from Imogen wasn’t much of a big secret, I felt, for Imogen, especially when you think about Eckbert keeping Jaron being alive a secret from his mother—that was a secret that was unforgivable to me. She says something like Jaron is putting her life in danger. Really, if that’s the problem, why agree to marry him in the first place? It’s as if she doesn’t know him yet, and then she kept secrets too. People said she had a plan, but her plan was just agreeing to marry Castor, and maybe she did send for soldiers, but her plan was very uninteresting and took long to be put into effect. Also, really, she had to kiss Castor despite knowing Jaron was in the room? Jaron should have ended the relationship because Jaron’s plans are reckless and stupid, but they don’t involve cheating on his love interest. Why did the marriage happen in the end after all this?

Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

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I’m fine with side romances taking place off-page, but you need to show me some dynamic or progress of relationships between the main couple on-page clearly from the beginning before confirming it much later for me to root for it. Jaron being an unreliable narrator doesn’t help.Also, Amarinda and Imogen are good friends? Why don’t they ever interact on-page even once in front of Jaron? And why do the villains think targeting Imogen will make Jaron surrender? The villains don’t know Jaron well, especially Vargan, who hasn’t seen him with Imogen. He should have targeted the princess, not Imogen, who was distant from Jaron for months. The romance was weird because by the time Imogen got kidnapped, Jaron had spent much more time with other characters than with Imogen in Book 3. They were all present in the castle during the time gap before the war. They knew each other for about a month, right? They never talked much either, except for plot purposes. Jaron had other things to do throughout Books 1 and 2. They didn’t have mundane conversations in the books much. I couldn’t understand Jaron in Book 3 being insistent on rescuing Imogen, leaving behind his kingdom during a war all by himself. I’ve seen many kings in other books, but every one of them at least accompanies trusted friends when trying to rescue someone in war-like situations. If he hadn’t gone to Imogen by himself, I don’t think Imogen would have needed to sacrifice herself. And seriously, why was Jaron so love-struck suddenly in Book 3? I don’t mind love-struck characters, but I didn’t expect Jaron to be like that for someone he had interacted with so little. And he’s in the middle of a war and just wanted to kiss Imogen? It felt out of character for Jaron.When Imogen died, I didn’t feel Jaron’s grief. I usually cry a lot in such cases in shows or books, but in this series, I felt Imogen wasn’t made into a fleshed-out character before what was done to her. I felt Jaron was grieving her more than he mourned his ghost family. I don’t get it. I couldn’t stand him wanting to die because Imogen was dead. YOU HAVE A WAR TO WIN FOR YOUR PEOPLE. YOU STILL HAVE YOUR FRIENDS. I hate when characters are like that. I can understand characters wanting to die after the death of their family members, but I really don’t understand them wanting to die for a love interest they had barely interacted with or known. I had a friend in school who disliked these kinds of romances as well. I like when characters grieve silently for their love interest or keep moving forward. I like when protagonists get angry at that moment and stand up to fight. So Jaron immediately getting captured after Imogen’s sacrifice didn’t work for me. Jaron spent too much time grieving for Imogen. And then what? Imogen was alive in the end, but she didn’t do anything after coming back at the end of Book 3. Also, how was it love at first sight? There were no hints. It’s like the author was forcing the romance. I also hated how they mentioned too many times in Book 3 that Jaron was in love with Imogen, with his friends questioning him and villains saying Imogen’s death was Jaron’s fault. I hate when villains do that, as if the plot is forcing the romance at times. I couldn’t feel the romantic moments. I like female characters being kidnapped and then rescued or needing to be rescued, but at least when I get to see the kidnapping from their point of view, when they try to escape, or when they get useful information after being kidnapped, or when I see their thoughts and emotions while they’re kidnapped. I think I like it when the story is told from their perspective or the female character is the protagonist because only then have I seen kidnapping scenes executed properly. In this case, Imogen most of the time becomes the cause of Jaron’s problems or troubles throughout the books in some way.

Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

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There are other things I didn’t like about Imogen. Did she really have to tell that Serena girl and make it sound like Jaron is a creep? Jaron isn’t like that, and people may have found it funny, but I didn’t. If Jaron had made upsuch things about Imogen and told other people something like what Imogen apparently told about Jaron in book 2, people would have hated it, I know. I understand it was to ensure the pirates didn’t know Jaron and Imogen were friends, but really, Imogen could have lied and said something else.

Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

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Then there was that drama of “I cannot be with you,” which made me roll my eyes. I like forbidden love drama, but it has to be executed the right way. Jaron wasn’t even in love with Imogen at that time; he insisted it was friendship, and Imogen was like, “No, we were never friends.” I didn’t see what they did to be more than friends, because Jaron has been shown to risk his life for any of his friends. In fact, I didn’t like how I never got to see when Jaron asked Imogen to be his friend (I saw that for Tobias and Roden). The ending of Book 1 was weird because when Imogen found out Jaron was the prince, she kept insisting on keeping a distance in that last conversation they had in Book 1, and suddenly Imogen is Jaron’s close friend at the beginning of Book 2. I don’t get Jaron saying he needs Imogen in his life somehow every day because, in Book 1, he didn’t talk with her every day and was on his own making plans, dealing with his own sorrow, and figuring things out. He did say Imogen could go back to her home at the end of Book 1 whenever she wanted. So why was Imogen still in the castle at the beginning of Book 2? She did say she had nothing to do in the castle in Book 1. Jaron was fine with her going away at the end of Book 1. I think Jaron didn’t talk much with anyone in the time gap between Book 1 and Book 2 because he said he spent most of his time in his room or practicing swordplay. So how much did he even talk with Imogen after Book 1’s ending to become close friends? There was that difference in status after the Book 1 reveal, and in Book 2, Mott and Tobias insisted on calling Jaron by his title. So why is Imogen calling him Jaron? In the ending of Book 1, she called him by his title and seemed submissive. We didn’t see how they became close friends after everything in Book 1 and Book 2.

Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

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Then there’s Imogen. I know many liked her character, but she never gave me a good impression at first. She became only a love interest later on. She didn’t get a character arc of her own; everything about her was involved with Jaron. She never had any goals or motivations. I never really got to see her grow as a character. Also, she was kind and all, but I didn’t feel much of the stakes when she was pretending to be mute in Book 1. There were other servants in that book, but none of them did that. I didn’t feel that secret was a big deal. I like characters who are mute, but only when they’re some kind of spy, have suffered trauma so they couldn’t speak, or are truly mute and use sign language (I noticed there was no sign language in Book 1 except nodding and pointing to something). That choice just made her not have much interaction with other characters in Book 1, and she remained absent physically for the entirety of Book 3. The damsel-in-distress role didn’t help. I needed Imogen as a character first before getting into the romance. I couldn’t relate to her, and I don’t know her much. I didn’t know her interests. Also, Imogen is always so serious and not much fun. Jaron made it sound like Imogen is always right no matter what, making her too perfect or too good with no flaws. We don’t see her make mistakes (even if she did, they aren’t pointed out). This leads to her getting no development. I couldn’t really like her, so I couldn’t feel the romance or see her the way Jaron described her later on in the other books. As a girl, if I cannot like the female character, I don’t get invested in the romance. I know the books were in Jaron’s POV, but even then, I could feel and understand the perspectives of other characters, but I couldn’t get Imogen. I’ve read many books with first-person POVs and never had this problem of not understanding or liking the female character. This series was just an exception.

Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.

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Ascendance Trilogy Review

Here is my review of the Ascendance series : I just love Jaron! He is my book crush in the Ascendance series. I also adore Mott, Roden, and Tobias. I liked Mott because of the conversation he had in Book 1, how he could see Sage was acting tough but wasn’t truly tough. Mott was the only one in Book 1 who realized Sage was the prince. His loyalty later on in the books and how, during the war in Book 3, he made Jaron regain his strength (I love his speech to Jaron) was remarkable. He was Jaron’s friend but also felt like a guardian figure. I really didn’t want him dead in Book 3 and felt Jaron’s pain when he thought Mott might die. Roden and Tobias weren’t my favorites initially, but I ended up liking Tobias by the end of Book 1 and later on. As for Roden, I don’t approve of what he did by trying to kill Jaron or break his leg, but I love what their dynamic became later on—the development was too good. I like how Jaron said a few philosophical things to Roden in Book 2 during the fight and also in Book 3 to boost his confidence. Roden’s actions were confusing in Book 4, but in reality, he never truly abandoned Jaron even then. I hoped Roden and other characters had gotten more spotlight in Book 5 (I needed to see my favorite trio). Amarinda is the kind of princess I usually like—royalty who doesn’t enjoy royal life. She had a sense of duty and turned out to be amazing in Book 3. I liked her story about wanting to make her own choices. She’s kind of fun, too (I find it funny when she said she hated wearing gowns in Book 2 and when she joked with Fink in Book 3 at the beginning). I don’t mind her and Tobias ending up together, though it was a bit weird since we got no scenes between them in the books. Still, as a side couple, it works. However, I wish Tobias hadn’t told Amarinda in Book 3, when they were playing in the mud, the same thing Sage had told her in Book 1 during their first meeting (about dirt on her cheek). It didn’t give me a distinct feel for their romance since they didn’t have many on-page scenes.Harlowe is great. I always liked how he never got upset with Jaron, especially how he gave Jaron that hug when Jaron shouted at him at the beginning. Jaron really needed such hugs a lot, but I think whenever Jaron shouts in the books out of anger or fear, people just misunderstand him or get angry with him. Kerwyn was so good, but I don’t approve of the author killing him off-page in Book 5. Was losing someone who was like a parent necessary? Jaron already lost his parents; he didn’t need to lose more. (He will remain alive in my headcanons.) Fink turned out to be one of my favorite characters. He’s cute. I love his dynamic with Jaron, and in Book 4, how Fink is the only one who isn’t angry with Jaron no matter what.I think Books 4 and 5 had a different vibe, and many times things seemed repetitive, like Jaron getting imprisoned in every book or being physically tortured. I love the plot twists in the series, especially the Book 1 twist, but I felt some plot twists in the later books were unnecessary. I liked the plot twist of Darius being alive in Book 4, but I didn’t like the twist of him being adopted and also being Conner’s son. I still don’t like Conner despite what he did in Book 3. I usually don’t like villains no matter what, and Conner killed Jaron’s parents—how can I forgive him? He’s not interesting or complex like Soo-won from *Yona of the Dawn*. Conner killed an innocent orphan kid just to prove how high the stakes were in Book 1; I cannot like him. I also didn’t like what the author did with Darius’ character in Book 4 because I thought Darius missed Jaron and didn’t imagine him to be like that. I didn’t think Darius really wanted to be king; I thought he did that because he wanted Jaron to enjoy freedom (something like that was mentioned in Book 1). Wasn’t it a bit stupid of him to believe Jaron could do that to his parents? Anyway, he later turned out to be the way I always thought of him by the end of Book 4 and in Book 5.